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System administration

syca – minimal sudo-like privilege elevation tool

December 28, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

syca runs privileged commands through PAM authentication and a setuid helper, with timed authorization caching and status controls.

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System administration

gasroot – run a process as the root user

December 21, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, GUI, Utilities

gasroot launches authorized commands as root through a graphical password prompt, with wheel-group checks and environment controls.

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System Administration

asroot – simpler alternative to sudo and doas

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

asroot runs commands as root for authorized wheel-group members, with password authentication and sanitized process environments.

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Administrators in action

sudo-rs – memory-safe implementation of sudo and su

November 4, 2025 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

sudo-rs provides memory-safe sudo and su implementations with PAM authentication, sudoers rules, secure editing and audit logging.

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please – polite regex-first sudo alternative

June 1, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

please delegates privileged command execution through regex or exact-match rules, timed permissions, logging and protected editing.

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doas – execute commands as another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

doas runs commands as another user through concise authorization rules, PAM authentication, environment controls and safe editing tools.

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pkexec – execute a command as another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

pkexec executes authorized commands as another user using polkit policies, authentication agents and a restricted execution environment.

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su – run a command with substitute user and group ID

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

su switches user and group identities for shells or commands, with PAM authentication, login environments and pseudo-terminal support.

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dzdo – execute commands with the privileges of another user

May 31, 2023 Steve Emms CLI, Utilities

dzdo is a command-line tool used to execute commands with the privileges of another user, such as the superuser or root user.

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Docker

Getting Started with Docker: Run Docker without sudo

November 7, 2021 Steve Emms Tutorials

Docker is a set of platform as a service (PaaS) products that use OS-level virtualization to deliver software in packages called containers.

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